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  • Purpose: Expose Matter Thread Network Diagnostics as Home Assistant sensors to improve troubleshooting and visibility into network stability.
  • What’s Added: Three diagnostic sensors from the Thread Network Diagnostics cluster:
    • ThreadNetworkDiagnosticsPartitionId: current Thread network partition ID
    • ThreadNetworkDiagnosticsAttachAttemptCount: attach attempts counter
    • ThreadNetworkDiagnosticsPartitionIdChangeCount: partition ID changes counter

The whole point is to graph them in order to see the changes and thus identify instability.
I would also like to add a Thread network connection reliability indicator on a scale of 1 to 10 in a future PR.

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@lboue lboue marked this pull request as ready for review January 7, 2026 11:48
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Pull request overview

This PR adds three Thread Network Diagnostics cluster sensors to the Matter integration to improve troubleshooting and visibility into Thread network stability for Matter devices:

  • Partition ID sensor - Reports the current Thread network partition identifier
  • Attach Attempts counter - Tracks cumulative attach attempt count
  • Partition ID Changes counter - Tracks how many times the partition ID has changed

All three sensors are diagnostic entities disabled by default to avoid cluttering the UI, following Home Assistant conventions for technical diagnostic data.

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File Description
homeassistant/components/matter/sensor.py Adds three MatterDiscoverySchema definitions for Thread Network Diagnostics sensors with appropriate state classes, entity categories, and feature map requirements
homeassistant/components/matter/strings.json Adds translation keys for the three new sensor entity names
homeassistant/components/matter/icons.json Assigns antenna icons (mdi:antenna) to all three Thread diagnostic sensors
tests/components/matter/test_sensor.py Adds comprehensive tests for all three sensors including initial state verification, update handling, entity category validation, and None value handling

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